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ward as analogous to Brahman on the ground
that the latter is intelligent, while the former is
not. Gods, fathers, rishis, the spider, &c., are
adduced as analogous to Brahman in possessing
intelligence and also as possessing the capacity
of creating by their will many and various objects
without extraneous aids. Here again the objects
compared with each other differ in other respects,
but the analogy holds in regard to the particular
point in the author's view.
Dr. Thibaut then takes up "the latter part
of the fourth pada of the first adhyaya" in order
to show that "the maya doctrine was not present
to the mind of the Sutrakara." We have already
made more than one reference to this section of
the work. Dr. Thibaut now refers to it to show
that there is not a single word in it to indi-
cate, had such been the author's view, that
Brahman is the material cause of the world
through Maya only and that the world is unreal."
He says further that the terin "parinamat" in
Sutra 26 denotes "that very theory to which the
followers of Sankara are most violently opposed,
viz., the doctrine according to which the world
ward as analogous to Brahman on the ground
that the latter is intelligent, while the former is
not. Gods, fathers, rishis, the spider, &c., are
adduced as analogous to Brahman in possessing
intelligence and also as possessing the capacity
of creating by their will many and various objects
without extraneous aids. Here again the objects
compared with each other differ in other respects,
but the analogy holds in regard to the particular
point in the author's view.
Dr. Thibaut then takes up "the latter part
of the fourth pada of the first adhyaya" in order
to show that "the maya doctrine was not present
to the mind of the Sutrakara." We have already
made more than one reference to this section of
the work. Dr. Thibaut now refers to it to show
that there is not a single word in it to indi-
cate, had such been the author's view, that
Brahman is the material cause of the world
through Maya only and that the world is unreal."
He says further that the terin "parinamat" in
Sutra 26 denotes "that very theory to which the
followers of Sankara are most violently opposed,
viz., the doctrine according to which the world